Sources: Woodson set to leave IU at season’s end

• Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello ESPN Personnel Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware.Feb 6, 2025, 05:35 PM ET Men’s

• basketball coach Mike Woodson
• is not anticipated to return to Indiana next season

, sources told ESPN on Thursday.Woodson, 66, is expected to coach the remainder of the year, sources stated, but he and the Hoosiers are in discussions about the coach’s desires to step

away after this season. The information of the exit are being discussed.The Hoosiers are heading toward their 2nd consecutive season without an NCAA competition appearance, losing four straight games and six of their past seven.While the financial terms of

Woodson’s exit are not clear, his contract calls for him to be paid more than$8 million if he’s fired. His contract permits the buyout to be paid in annual million-dollar lump sums, which

makes it more manageable for the school from a monetary standpoint.Editor’s Picks 2 Related Following an offseason restore that included one of the better transfer portal classes in the nation, headlined by Oumar Ballo(Arizona), Myles Rice(Washington State)and Kanaan Carlyle(Stanford), Indiana got in the season with considerable expectations. The Hoosiers were No. 17 in the preseason

AP poll and

behind only Purdue in the preseason Big Ten media poll.Indiana had one of the biggest NIL budgets in the Big Ten and in the country this season, which is anticipated to be a substantial selling point for the job.The Hoosiers suffered back-to-back blowout losses to Louisville and Gonzaga in late November before seemingly righting the ship and winning 9 of their next 10 games. However they have actually won just one game in the previous month and dropped to 14-9 general and 5-7 in the Big Ten.In ESPN’s latest Bracketology, the Hoosiers are not even noted among the Next Four Out.Following Indiana’s newest loss

, a 76-64 defeat at Wisconsin in which the Hoosiers trailed 26-4 simply minutes into the game, Woodson openly questioned his team’s durability.”We’re simply not a hard team right now,”he said. “We’re not. Psychologically we’re not tough. “The Hoosiers had a comparable collapse midway through Huge 10 play last season, beginning 10-3 before losing 10 of their next 14 games. They completed 19-14 total, with the school revealing towards the end of the project that Woodson would return as the program’s head coach for the 2024-25 season.Indiana reached the NCAA tournament in each of Woodson’s first 2 seasons, including a second-place Huge Ten finish in 2023. It made a 4-seed in the NCAA tournament

before falling to ultimate Last 4 individual Miami in the 2nd round.The Hoosiers went 21-14 in 2021-22, sneaking into the First Four of the NCAA competition and beating Wyoming before being up to Saint Mary’s. Woodson is a previous Indiana star who played under Bob Knight from 1976 to 1980 before being picked in the first round of the 1980 NBA draft by the New york city Knicks. After an NBA profession that consisted of 11 years as a player and 25 years as a head coach and assistant coach, he was hired by his alma mater in 2021 to replace Archie Miller.